Watergate Night Market

Go in expecting a Thai night market and you'll walk out puzzled. This place, in the Pratunam area (Watergate is just the English of Pratunam), leans South Asian: Indian stalls, Indian vendors, an Indian restaurant called India Gate that reviewers rate for its garlic naan. That's the draw. If you want mango sticky rice, there's a vendor outside that people swear by, pricier than most but apparently worth it.

It's small. Genuinely small, and several people say so with some frustration, so don't build an afternoon around it. Shopping runs to clothes, accessories and general bits and pieces, and the prices aren't especially sharp compared with other Bangkok markets. Haggling tends to get you 10 or 20 baht off, which isn't much. The saving grace is that a good chunk of it is indoors and air-conditioned, which makes it a decent bolthole when the rain comes down or the heat gets stupid.